Museum number:

APM 22.570

Subcollection:

wooden pipes

Title:

tobacco pipe

Keyword:

standing Turk and two riders

Description:

Tobacco pipe made of wood with Ulm shape bowl with round bottom and rising stem ending in a light stub. Bowl front embossed a standing Turk with mustache and medium-long hair, a turban on top of which a crescent moon, the right arm raised with a crooked sword, the left hand on the belt, dressed in a red tunic, pipe bowl on both sides a horseman on horse right with shoulder-length hair, a two-sided stitch on the head and a curved saber in the raised left hand, horseman on the left a hat with feather and a revolver in the left hand, above the right figure as a weapon a shield with an oblique trajectory on which three stars, above the left figure the double-headed eagle with in its claws a scepter and a sword, bowl underneath a dragon with an outstretched tongue on which the Turk stands. Stem a curl motif on either side, from which an elongated leaf, a bridge between the stem and bowl through which the flue runs. Bowl interior covered with sheet metal. Original brass valve cover with pointed openwork valve on which a disc and button and finished with a setting in which a red cut glass stone.

Date:

Period

1790 - 1810

Dimensions:

General	Height	10.63 in (27 cm)
Bowl	Height	7.87 in (20 cm)
	Width	3.94 in (10 cm)
Stem	Length	12.2 in (31 cm)